Research Engineering in Radio Astronomy

1. Research engineering in radio astronomy Gijs Molenaar 22 May 2019
4. Where to start? • First job in 1998 • Security administrator local internet provider • While studying MBO electrotechniek
5. Internship SARA • 2001 • Maintain beowulf cluster • Now SURFsara
16. “Design patterns and software techniques for large scale, open and reproducible data reduction”
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23. Partially observing in Fourier space
31. Dirty PSF Ground truth
33. Train data • Spiel • CWL based Simulator • Make a random sky (point sources) • Run telescope in reverse https://github.com/gijzelaerr/spiel/
37. Future • Finish PhD • More radio astronomy? • Interesting new adventures • Software engineering / management • Machine learning / data science
38. question?